Author: United States. Department of the Interior
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1548
Book Description
Official Register of the United States
Author: United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1548
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1548
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The Second Colorado Cavalry
Author: Christopher M. Rein
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806166681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
During the Civil War, the Second Colorado Volunteer Regiment played a vital and often decisive role in the fight for the Union on the Great Plains—and in the westward expansion of the American empire. Christopher M. Rein’s The Second Colorado Cavalry is the first in-depth history of this regiment operating at the nexus of the Civil War and the settlement of the American West. Composed largely of footloose ’59ers who raced west to participate in the gold rush in Colorado, the troopers of the Second Colorado repelled Confederate invasions in New Mexico and Indian Territory before wading into the Burned District along the Kansas border, the bloodiest region of the guerilla war in Missouri. In 1865, the regiment moved back out onto the plains, applying what it had learned to peacekeeping operations along the Santa Fe Trail, thus definitively linking the Civil War and the military conquest of the American West in a single act of continental expansion. Emphasizing the cavalry units, whose mobility proved critical in suppressing both Confederate bushwhackers and Indian raiders, Rein tells the neglected tale of the “fire brigade” of the Trans-Mississippi Theater—a group of men, and a few women, who enabled the most significant environmental shift in the Great Plains’ history: the displacement of Native Americans by Euro-American settlers, the swapping of bison herds for fenced cattle ranges, and the substitution of iron horses for those of flesh and bone. The Second Colorado Cavalry offers us a much-needed history of the “guerilla hunters” who helped suppress violence and keep the peace in contested border regions; it adds nuance and complexity to our understanding of the unlikely “agents of empire” who successfully transformed the Central Plains.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806166681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
During the Civil War, the Second Colorado Volunteer Regiment played a vital and often decisive role in the fight for the Union on the Great Plains—and in the westward expansion of the American empire. Christopher M. Rein’s The Second Colorado Cavalry is the first in-depth history of this regiment operating at the nexus of the Civil War and the settlement of the American West. Composed largely of footloose ’59ers who raced west to participate in the gold rush in Colorado, the troopers of the Second Colorado repelled Confederate invasions in New Mexico and Indian Territory before wading into the Burned District along the Kansas border, the bloodiest region of the guerilla war in Missouri. In 1865, the regiment moved back out onto the plains, applying what it had learned to peacekeeping operations along the Santa Fe Trail, thus definitively linking the Civil War and the military conquest of the American West in a single act of continental expansion. Emphasizing the cavalry units, whose mobility proved critical in suppressing both Confederate bushwhackers and Indian raiders, Rein tells the neglected tale of the “fire brigade” of the Trans-Mississippi Theater—a group of men, and a few women, who enabled the most significant environmental shift in the Great Plains’ history: the displacement of Native Americans by Euro-American settlers, the swapping of bison herds for fenced cattle ranges, and the substitution of iron horses for those of flesh and bone. The Second Colorado Cavalry offers us a much-needed history of the “guerilla hunters” who helped suppress violence and keep the peace in contested border regions; it adds nuance and complexity to our understanding of the unlikely “agents of empire” who successfully transformed the Central Plains.
Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border
Author: Donald Gilmore
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455602308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
During the Civil War, the western front was the scene of some of that conflictï¿1/2s bloodiest and most barbaric encounters as Union raiders and Confederate guerrillas pursued each other from farm to farm with equal disregard for civilian casualties. Historical accounts of these events overwhelmingly favor the victorious Union standpoint, characterizing the Southern fighters as wanton, unprincipled savages. But in fact, as the author, himself a descendant of Union soldiers, discovered, the bushwhackersï¿1/2 violent reactions were understandable, given the reign of terror they endured as a result of Lincolnï¿1/2s total war in the West. In reexamining many of the long-held historical assumptions about this period, Gilmore discusses President Lincolnï¿1/2s utmost desire to keep Missouri in the Union by any and all means. As early as 1858, Kansan and Union troops carried out unbridled confiscation or destruction of Missouri private property, until the state became known as "the burnt region." These outrages escalated to include martial law throughout Missouri and finally the infamous General Orders Number 11 of September 1863 in which Union general Thomas Ewing, federal commander of the region, ordered the deportation of the entire population of the border counties. It is no wonder that, faced with the loss of their farms and their livelihoods, Missourians struck back with equal force.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455602308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
During the Civil War, the western front was the scene of some of that conflictï¿1/2s bloodiest and most barbaric encounters as Union raiders and Confederate guerrillas pursued each other from farm to farm with equal disregard for civilian casualties. Historical accounts of these events overwhelmingly favor the victorious Union standpoint, characterizing the Southern fighters as wanton, unprincipled savages. But in fact, as the author, himself a descendant of Union soldiers, discovered, the bushwhackersï¿1/2 violent reactions were understandable, given the reign of terror they endured as a result of Lincolnï¿1/2s total war in the West. In reexamining many of the long-held historical assumptions about this period, Gilmore discusses President Lincolnï¿1/2s utmost desire to keep Missouri in the Union by any and all means. As early as 1858, Kansan and Union troops carried out unbridled confiscation or destruction of Missouri private property, until the state became known as "the burnt region." These outrages escalated to include martial law throughout Missouri and finally the infamous General Orders Number 11 of September 1863 in which Union general Thomas Ewing, federal commander of the region, ordered the deportation of the entire population of the border counties. It is no wonder that, faced with the loss of their farms and their livelihoods, Missourians struck back with equal force.
1861-1877, Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military and Naval [etc.]
Author: United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1824
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1824
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Official Register of the United States
Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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Annual Report of the Corporation Commission of the State of Oklahoma for the Year ...
Author: Oklahoma Corporation Commission
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Publisher:
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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To Change the Judicial Circuits of the U.S. and To Create a Tenth Judicial Circuit
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 2
Publisher:
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Category : Circuit courts
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 23.
Publisher:
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Category : Circuit courts
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 23.
Federal Register, ... Annual Index
Author:
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Publisher:
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Water-supply Paper
Author:
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Publisher:
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 982
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Publisher:
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 982
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